Melzer, Patricia, 1970-

Alien constructions science fiction and feminist thought / [electronic resource] : Patricia Melzer. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006. - x, 325 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-315) and index. Includes filmography: p. 315-316.

Cultural chameleons : anticolonial identities and resistance in Octavia E. Butler's Survivor and dawn -- The alien in us : metaphors of transgression in the work of Octavia E. Butler -- Technoscience's stepdaughter : the feminist cyborg in Alien resurrection -- Our bodies as our selves : body, subjectivity, and (virtual) reality in The matrix -- The anatomy of dystopia : female technobodies and the death of desire in Richard Calder's Dead girls -- Beyond binary gender : genderqueer identities and intersexed bodies in Octavia E. Butler's Wild seed and Imago and Melissa Scott's Shadow man.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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Alien resurrection (Motion picture)
Matrix (Motion picture)


Science fiction, American--History and criticism.
Science fiction, English--History and criticism.
Feminism in literature.


Electronic books.

PS374.S35 / M45 2006

813/.08762099287